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THE THERMALS "The Body, The Blood, The Machine" Reviews
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AZRating: 7.4 Users rating: 9.7 |
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Release: 22 Aug 2006
Label: Sub Pop
Genre: Rock
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| Aversion |
Rating: 10.0 |
The Body, The Blood, The Machine is a triumph
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| PitchFork |
Rating: 8.5 |
Harris' imagined landscape is severe and grisly, leaving us all to sprint for cover, curling under desks, hands over heads, fingers crossed: These tracks land like bombs.
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| ShakingThrough |
Rating: 7.4 |
The Thermals have always been known for fast-paced, lo-fi rock, but on The Body, The Blood, The Machine, they've slowed down the tempo a little and cleaned up the sound a lot.
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| The Age |
Rating: 7.0 |
It is what American Idiot would have sounded like if Green Day had gone to art school and grew up worshipping Pavement and Guided by Voices; and it is this (not so subtle) flavour within the bombast that distinguishes the band.
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| Drowned in sound |
Rating: 6.0 |
This ten-tracker makes up for a lack of variety with a series of immediate songs that bore their way effortlessly into the listener’s skull; once in there, the messages hollered by singer-cum-guitarist Hutch Harris sink in slow, as if being consumed by the thickest quicksand.
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| PunkNews |
Rating: 5.0 |
Absolutely dull and listless
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